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The Sports Xchange Pacquiao-Bradley fight won't start until Celtics-Heat game ends Saturday night's welterweight championship fight in Las Vegas between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley will not start until the conclusion of the NBA Eastern Conference championship Game 7, SI.com reported Friday. The Boston Celtics and host Miami Heat are scheduled to tip off at 8:30 p.m. ET. The fight's promoter, Bob Arum, made the announcement in a statement. "I'm not waiting for Manny's request on this one," Arum said.

GOLF: Jerry Vidovic, the pro at The Meadows in Blue Island, won the Illinois Senior Open title at Schaumburg Golf Club. His 3-under-par 141 was one ahead of Rockford's Chris Beto and Lincolnwood's Terry Russell. ... Davis Love III won the PGA's Payne Stewart Award. SOCCER: A cuddly leopard with a green afro named Zakumi will be the mascot of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. ... Georgia was cleared to host World Cup qualifiers again, with FIFA saying the country is safe to resume play.

(Reuters) - Timothy Bradley's controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao for the World Boxing Organization's (WBO) welterweight title will be reviewed, the governing body said on Wednesday. American Bradley won a split decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday that prompted the crowd to break out in a chorus of boos after watching 12 rounds that the Filipino had appeared to dominate. An outraged Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters, lambasted the judges in a post-fight news conference and has since asked the Nevada attorney general to investigate the outcome.

Arlington, Texas — Chicago's David Diaz failed to recover the world lightweight title he lost to Manny Pacquiao in 2008, dropping a unanimous decision to Mexico's Humberto Soto Saturday night at Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Diaz was knocked down in the first and 12th rounds, and despite a predictable courageous effort, judges gave Soto the WBC lightweight belt by scores of 115-111, 117-109 and 117-109 as a massive crowd of 50,994 looked on. "Very disappointed," Diaz (35-3-1)

The Sports Xchange Report: Judge defends his scoring in Bradley victory over Pacquiao One ofhe two veteran judges who scored the fight for Timothy Bradley in his controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday defended his decision in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "I thought Bradley gave Pacquiao a boxing lesson," Duane Ford said, according to the Review-Journal. "I thought a lot of the rounds were close. Pacquiao missed a lot of punches and I thought he was throwing wildly.

There was one logical sporting event in 2010. That's before the sport of boxing got into the ring with logic. That bout was over quicker than Ali-Liston II. Now, from the ashes of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s defunct showdown with Manny Pacquiao, comes a new and maybe more interesting possibility. The new Fight of All Recorded Time might be Mayweather and Shane Mosley. Mayweather needs a big occasion, and Mosley is the best box-office athlete available, with Pacquiao already headed for a March 13 fight with replacement Joshua Clottey.

The Sports Xchange Bradley broke his foot while beating Pacquiao; Arum wants investigation Timothy Bradley's manager said on Sunday that Bradley sustained a fracture to his left foot during his controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, while promoter Bob Arum said there would be no rematch unless there is an investigation of the fight and the judges' decision, according to Yahoo.com. Bradley's manager, Cameron Dunkin, told Yahoo.com's Kevin Iole that X-rays show Bradley has a left foot fracture.